Once, I set out to write the “Great Motor Racing Novel.” There was no firm plot in my mind, but...
During the Fifties, a number of women were involved in the sports car craze. This was during a time when...
March 2008 Market Madness Dear Editor, The reason Sotheby’s share prices dropped so suddenly is that the art they were selling was at “guaranteed reserve,” i.e., when they couldn’t sell it, they were obliged to buy it themselves. I wonder if this sort of arrangement ever happens at a car...
Although there were a number of pre-WWII cars that can be described as sports cars, the craze in the U.S....
From June 28 to August 3, 2008, at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, near Minneapolis, Minnesota, a very special...
Augie Pabst is one of the practitioners of the skillful art of road racing from the early days of North American road racing. He began as did so many others of his contemporaries in the 1950s, went on to race with Briggs Cunningham’s team, and from there went to the...
One of the enduring aspects of vintage racing is the camaraderie that develops between racers. With cars and racing as...
We all know that life isn’t a bed of roses and, sometimes, we are dealt the cruelest of blows. Don Simpson had spent three years of his life rebuilding a 20-year-old Australian special racing car, the Gladiator Holden. He finally got it performing and was looking forward to the historic...
Denny Hulme was one of the most reserved men in motor racing. He seldom showed his emotions, which he camouflaged...
This one picture is why I’m writing these thousand words. I’m doing so in the first week of August 2008—precisely...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
On August 28, we lost our great and good champion, Phil Hill. The entire world of motor sports is saddened....
Despite mid-August being a predictably warm and sunny month, nothing was going to stop the climatic conditions, synonymous with the...
Pat Moss-Carlsson, the younger sister of Stirling and wife of Erik, died after a long illness on October 14. She was 73. Both first-class show jumpers, it was Stirling who taught Pat to drive and that lit the fuse on an explosive 21-year driving career that saw her win the...
Since the doors opened in 1924, the MG Car Company of Great Britain has been producing interesting and innovative automobiles....
One of the most successful relationships in motor sports during the sixties was between Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles. It...
The 1949 MG TC raced by Carroll Shelby in the early stages of his career drew the top bid during the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction’s first outing in Las Vegas. The $313,500 paid for the car established a new world record for MG prices. “We’re thrilled with the outcome of...
MG Vintage Racers has selected SVRA’s June 4-7 Heacock Classic Gold Cup race event at Virginia International Raceway, as its...
Pete Lyons You know how someone’s opposing opinion, one that seems inconsequential enough to let slide at the time, can...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the founding fathers’ of South African motor sport and British Racing Drivers Club member, Sam Tingle, who died just before Christmas last year. Although synonymous with South Africa, Tingle was, in fact, born in Manchester, England. His racing...
It may be hard to imagine, but some vintage events are now becoming vintage themselves, and SVRA’s vintage Collier Cup...
Like many other sports during WWII, automobile racing experienced a hiatus. Soon thereafter, however, competition resumed. The Formula One World...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs a shop repairing, restoring, and preparing vintage racecars, usually Porsches. Once you dig a little deeper into his background, however, you find a more than merely competent racecar driver, one...
1958 Jaguar 3.4 Saloon An unused flying boat base from WWII provided the “test track” where our man Quinn tried...
No fewer than 20 4-cylinder Morgans—a potentially record turnout—have been invited to compete for the Morgan Techniques Trophy at the...
Peter Arundell showed promise right from the start of his career, finishing 2nd with his MG TC at a BARC event at Goodwood in 1957. His second year of racing was filled with success competing in many events in a Lotus 11, a marque that would play a pivotal part...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle...
Perhaps best known from his time as Competitions Manager of the British Motor Corporation, Marcus Chambers died in early August just short of his 99th birthday. With a father an admiral in the Royal Navy, Chambers’s early life was influenced by time living in Australia, Canada, and France, as well...